Flurry of great review tips just came in. Marking the 1st two in RED. DUPLICATE REVIEWS are getting pulled. Don't put G reviews on site as testimonial and I'm thinking may even be good idea to ask customers to please not leave the same review on multiple sites.

Mike Ramsey ‏@niftymarketingif google finds content on the web that is the same as a google review it will be removed.
Dont add as a site testimonial

Mike Blumenthal ‏@mblumenthal@joelh_gmaps google will pull down reviews that exact duplicates at Google or across the web

Mary Bowling ‏@MaryBowlinggive your customers some options for leaving anonymous reviews-not just on Google where names are published

Mary Bowling ‏@MaryBowling@mblumenthal tells us review diversity is more important than review quantity at

Mike Ramsey ‏@niftymarketingGoogle does look at the reviewer account/history when determining if reviews will stick or are considered spam

NOTE: On the duplicate reviews. I assumed this was part of filter AND know G hates duplicate content AND have always said not to put G reviews on your site.

However I have suggested and still recommend saving a copy of all your G reviews. Then IF G loses or deletes them, THEN add to your site as testimonials instead of having them just disappear into the ether.

I guess there has been a delay for awhile with new listings and "See your listing on Google link" from dashboard. So the current normal is that link can show "do not support" for a couple/few weeks now, instead of one week as previously stated.

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One way to use a Google review on your site would be to make a slideshow video using something like Animoto and include snippets of the review in the text slides they allow.

Not only would the review be arguably more powerful in video form, but now the business has a video on YouTube that may bring them some business and they can also add the video to their social media pages.

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